LIVER DISEASE, 
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United Brethren Aid Journal. 
LIVER DISEASE. 
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE LIT EE, 
(Chronic Hepatitis.) 
This is what is ordinarily called Liver Complaint, Torpid 
Liver, Bilious Disorder, Disease of the Liver, etc. 
SYMPTOMS. —The symptoms may differ according to 
Mie circumstances, aptitude, temperament, sex, age, or con¬ 
stitution, of the individual, and the complications of the dis¬ 
ease. The local indications are fullness of the right side, 
thus denoting congestion of the liver; a dull, heavy pain, 
/Which is generally increased by pressure or by lying on the 
left side; a sense of fullness, weight, and oppression, about 
the stomach; an aching in the right shoulder-blade; a dull, 
disagreeable pain in the shoulder-joint, which may extend 
down the arm, and is sometimes felt in the wrist and 
knuckle-joints of the hand. Not unfrequently the complexion 
becomes pale and sallow, and there is pumness under the 
eye, headache, a bitter taste in the mouth, tongue coated' 
white or covered with a brown fur; there is frequent sighing, 
hacking cough, fever, restlessness and loss of sleep; some- . 
times an unnatural, greasy appearance of the skin, at others, 
it is dry and harsh, has scaly or branny eruptions, pimples- 
d&rk blotches, and troublesome itching. The urine is fre¬ 
quently scanty and high-colored, but variable as to quantity 
and appearance; it often produces a scalding sensation when 
voided, and if allowed to stand, deposits a sediment which 
sometimes contains albumen. The pulse is slow, very slow, 
particularly when the elements of the bile are not eliminated 
from the blood. The pulsations of the heart are easily quick¬ 
ened, and palpitation is excited if the blood be low and 
anaemic. There is depression of spirits and a decided ten¬ 
dency to be discouraged and despondent. The functional 
S owers of the stomach are impaired, there is loss of appe- 
.te, or it becomes capricious, uneasiness is felt in the region 
Of the stomach, oppression, sometimes nausea and water- 
brash, or there is indigestion, flatulency, and acid eructa¬ 
tions; the bowels become irregular, usually constipated, and 
occasionally subject to obstinate diarrhoea attended with 
colicky pains, the stools are light clay-colored, sometimes 
hard and dark, again thin and very offensive, and now and 
then green or black. During the day the circulation is slug¬ 
gish, the feet and hands are cold, but at night the uulse is 
accelerated, and the palms of the hands and the soles of the 
feet have a burning sensation. 
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